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La joven a mi lado - entre otras cosas la culplable de mi delicioso estornudo - se paró y se cambió de vagón.
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Un estornudo de los clásicos, de los que no matan sino que te dejan aliviado y con sensación de placer.
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Percibo un aroma de prefume muy concentrado e inmediatamente suelto el estornudo.
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James Mabbe, the English cleric who translated Guzman into English as The Rogue (1622), renders this line in his usual verbose fashion as "my mother would tell him, that I was like him, as if I had been spit out of his mouth; and that two Egges were not liker one another, than I was like him" (Tudor edition, I, 84), where the Spanish estornudo
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Later reflections of this French phrase may be seen in Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache (Pt. I, 1599) where we find the phrase "le decia que era un estornudo suyo y que tanta similitud no se hallaba en dos huevos," (Clasicos Castellanos,
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